Morgan Smith

Morgan Smith, a student from Columbia College and Mannes College of Music in NYC's Columbia University, was a Seattle Opera Young Artist (1999-2000). In 2001 he made his debut in Billy Budd as Donald. Smith is known as a Seattle fan and has performed various roles in other productions which include Don Giovanni, Silvio in I Pagliacci (title role), Riccardo I Puritani, Peter Niles Mourning Becomes Electra as well as the Count Alamaviva In Le nozze di Figaro. Smith has a long-running career as a performer in concert venues. He has made the Dallas Symphony debut in Bach's St. Matthew Passion and as part of the San Antonio Symphony at the North American premiere for Detlef Glanert's orchestral rendition of Brahms popular cycle, Vier Praludien Und Ernste Gesange. Additional concert repertoire include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony; the Requiems of Brahms, Faure, Mozart and Durufle. Mass of C Minor of Mozart and the Mass that is in G Minor of Vaughan Williams; Bach's B Minor Mass, numerous Cantatas as well as Weihnachts Oratorium; Handel's Messiah and L'Allegro and the il Penseroso ed il Moderato; and Haydn's The Creation and Lord Nelson Mass.